This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This particular segment features Nelson Pavlosky, one of the Co-Founders of Free Culture.org, a civil rights group in cyberspace. In this clip, Nelson explains that Diebold tried to hide the fact that memos pertaining to defects in the code that ran the voting machines in the very close US 2000 presidential election in Florida were defective. Since the source code was closed, there is no way that the defects would have been found, except for the fact that the source code was leaked onto the Internet. Since this is the introductory snip, Nelson also introduces himself for the camera, and tells a bit about the suit that he brought against Diebold, which incredibly was trying to sue people to prevent them from putting those leaked memos onto the Internet. If there is one snip in our film that will show the importance of free open source software in a free democracy, this will be it.

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